•  Key SRB  = Scofield References JFB   = Jamieson, Fausset, Brown Commentary JFB   = Introduction AC    = Adam Clarke Comentary AC    = Chronology by Adam Clarke OU    = OUtline of Job   CHAPTER 23       Verses   |-1- |-2- |-3- |-4- |-5- |-6- |-7- |-8- |-9- |-10- |-11- |-12- |-13- |-14- |-15- |-16- |-17-|   THIRD SERIES. Job 23:1-17. JOB'S ANSWER.  â€¢ JFB Top â € ¢ SRB  AC  OU  OU Index Verse 2. to-day--implying, perhaps, that the debate was carried on through more days than one (see Introduction).       bitter-- (Job 7:11; 10:1).       my stroke--the hand of God on me (Margin, Job 19:21; Ps 32:4).       heavier than--is so heavy that I cannot relieve myself adequately by groaning.  â€¢ JFB Top â € ¢ SRB  AC  OU  OU Index Verse 3. The same wish as in Job 13:3 (compare Heb 10:19-22).       Seat--The idea in the Hebrew is a well-prepared throne (Ps 9:7).  â€¢ JFB Top â € ¢ SRB  AC  OU  OU Index Verse 4. order--state methodically (Job 13:18; Isa 43:26).       fill, &c.--I would have abundance of arguments to adduce.  â€¢ JFB Top â € ¢ SRB  AC  OU  OU Index Verse 5. he--emphatic: it little matters what man may say of me, if only I know what God judges of me.  â€¢ JFB Top â € ¢ SRB  AC  OU  OU Index Verse 6. An objection suggests itself, while he utters the wish (Job 23:5). Do I hereby wish that He should plead against me with His omnipotence? Far from it! (Job 9:19, 34; 13:21; 30:18).       strength--so as to prevail with Him: as in Jacob's case (Ho 12:3, 4). UMBREIT and MAURER better translate as in Job 4:20 (I only wish that He) "would attend to me," that is, give me a patient hearing as an ordinary judge, not using His omnipotence, but only His divine knowledge of my innocence.  â€¢ JFB Top â € ¢ SRB  AC  OU  OU Index Verse 7. There--rather, "Then": if God would "attend" to me (Job 23:6).       righteous--that is, the result of my dispute would be, He would acknowledge me as righteous.       delivered--from suspicion of guilt on the part of my Judge.  â€¢ JFB Top â € ¢ SRB  AC  OU  OU Index Verse 8. But I wish in vain. For "behold," &c.       forward . . . backward--rather, "to the east--to the west." The Hebrew geographers faced the east, that is, sunrise: not the north, as we do. So "before" means east: "behind," west (so the Hindus). Para, "before"--east: Apara, "behind"--west: Daschina, "the right hand"--south: Bama, "left"--north. A similar reference to sunrise appears in the name Asia, "sunrise," Europe, "sunset"; pure Babylonian names, as RAWLINSON shows.  â€¢ JFB Top â € ¢ SRB  AC  OU  OU Index Verse 9. Rather, "To the north."       work--God's glorious works are especially seen towards the north region of the sky by one in the northern hemisphere. The antithesis is between God working and yet not being beheld: as in Job 9:11, between "He goeth by," and "I see Him not." If the Hebrew bears it, the parallelism to the second clause is better suited by translating, as UMBREIT, "doth hide himself"; but then the antithesis to "behold" would be lost.       right hand--"in the south."       hideth--appropriately, of the unexplored south, then regarded as uninhabitable because of its heat (see Job 34:29).  â€¢ JFB Top â € ¢ SRB  AC  OU  OU Index Verse 10. But--correcting himself for the wish that his cause should be known before God. The omniscient One already knoweth the way in me (my inward principles: His outward way or course of acts is mentioned in Job 23:11. So in me, Job 4:21); though for some inscrutable cause He as yet hides Himself (Job 23:8, 9).       when--let Him only but try my cause, I shall, &c.  â€¢ JFB Top â € ¢ SRB  AC  OU  OU Index Verse 11. held--fast by His steps. The law is in Old Testament poetry regarded as a way, God going before us as our guide, in whose footsteps we must tread (Ps 17:5).       declined-- (Ps 125:5).  â€¢ JFB Top â € ¢ SRB  AC  OU  OU Index Verse 12. esteemed--rather, "laid up," namely, as a treasure found (Mt 13:44; Ps 119:11); alluding to the words of Eliphaz (Job 22:22). There was no need to tell me so; I have done so already (Jer 15:16).       necessary--"Appointed portion" (of food; as in Pr 30:8). UMBREIT and MAURER translate, "More than my law," my own will, in antithesis to "the words of His mouth" (Joh 6:38). Probably under the general term, "what is appointed to me" (the same Hebrew is in Job 23:14), all that ministers to the appetites of the body and carnal will is included.  â€¢ JFB Top â € ¢ SRB  AC  OU  OU Index Verse 13. in one mind--notwithstanding my innocence, He is unaltered in His purpose of proving me guilty (Job 9:12).       soul--His will (Ps 115:3). God's sovereignty. He has one great purpose; nothing is haphazard; everything has its proper place with a view to His purpose.  â€¢ JFB Top â € ¢ SRB  AC  OU  OU Index Verse 14. many such--He has yet many more such ills in store for me, though hidden in His breast (Job 10:13).  â€¢ JFB Top â € ¢ SRB  AC  OU  OU Index Verse 15. God's decrees, impossible to be resisted, and leaving us in the dark as to what may come next, are calculated to fill the mind with holy awe [BARNES].  â€¢ JFB Top â € ¢ SRB  AC  OU  OU Index Verse 16. soft--faint; hath melted my courage. Here again Job's language is that of Jesus Christ (Ps 22:14).  â€¢ JFB Top â € ¢ SRB  AC  OU  OU Index Verse 17. Because I was not taken away by death from the evil to come (literally, "from before the face of the darkness," Isa 57:1). Alluding to the words of Eliphaz (Job 22:11), "darkness," that is, calamity.       cut off--rather, in the Arabic sense, brought to the land of silence; my sad complaint hushed in death [UMBREIT]. "Darkness" in the second clause, not the same Hebrew word as in the first, "cloud," "obscurity." Instead of "covering the cloud (of evil) from my face," He "covers" me with it (Job 22:11).  â€¢ JFB Top ----- A WORK IN PROGRESS NOTE: If your reference search placed you here it is indication that there are no Outline References for your search on this page. 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INDEX OF JOB
 

1)  ABSTRACT OF THE BOOK OF JOB     ~ Job 1 Alternative Format

2)  A COMPENDIUM OF THE BOOK OF JOB ~ Job 2 Alternative Format

3)  HAMARTIOLGY OF THE BOOK OF JOB  ~ Job 3 Alternative Format

4)  SOTERIOLOGY OF THE BOOK OF JOB  ~ Job 4 Alternative Format

5)  SATANOLOGY OF THE BOOK OF JOB   ~ Job 5 Alternative Format

6)  ESCHATOLOGY OF THE BOOK OF JOB  ~ Job 6 Alternative Format

7)  BIBLIOGRAPHY                    ~ Alternative Bibliography

8)  Dictionary of Terms             ~ Alternate Dictionary Job

9)  Maps Of The Bible

9)  "Broken" ~ A Must Read!

10) Tools For Biblical Research

• Study Adapted From
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Index to Other Books of the Bible
Introduction To the Bible
A Panoramic View Of The Bible

• Introduction To Job
  Expanded Introduction
  Names and Order of Books of The Bible
  KJV - Public Domain
  KJB - Why I Stick Faithfully To It.

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